Writing Quotes · Page 572

When you are a writer, the assist-to-turnover ratio... there are a lot more turnovers than assists.

— Jeff Baena

You have a voice don't be afraid to speak, live through your pen and create a legacy.

— Michael Kilby

I've always wanted to write movies - I always used to tell my mom that I wanted to be a director.

— R. Kelly

I don't think you can write an experience as you're having it without being an idiot.

— Jessa Crispin

It's funny because my main awkwardness around writing the song had little to do with the method.

— Erin McKeown

Nobody ever became a writer just by wanting to be one.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Of the whole public not a handful can understand the artist's point of view or the writer's conscience.

— Maxwell Perkins

My heart is in independent film-making. For me, it's where the fun, gritty storytelling is being told.

— Aaron Paul

By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only…

— George Orwell

My natural orientation has never been among a community of writers, really. For some reason my social world has always been in…

— Rachel Kushner

As a writer, you're not even at the party when you work in film. At best, you're the one laying out the…

— Abi Morgan

What an ornament and safeguard is humor! Far better than wit for a poet and writer. It is a genius itself, and…

— Walter Scott

[Doing a bilingual album] helped artistically because whenever I got bored of writing in English, I would write in Spanish. It's always…

— Enrique Iglesias

I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel. I'm just writing songs that I like, and that's where I've always come from.

— Lewis Capaldi

The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story…

— Ben Okri

Painting is marvelous; it makes you happier and more patient. Afterwards you do not have black fingers as with writing, but blue…

— Hermann Hesse

I think of fear as a survival function, and in the stories that I write, the only thing that I've tried to…

— Stephen King

“I suspect that every teacher hears the same complaints, but that, being seldom a practicing author, he tends to dismiss them as…

— Dorothea Brande

If a novel is written in a certain language with certain characters from a particular community and the story is very good…

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

What I like about being independent [in the music industry] is that anybody who does play the album on the radio and…

— Ani DiFranco

The reason I never wrote a novel is that I don't have what it takes to write characters, so they would all…

— Wim Wenders

One of the most useful parts of my education as a writer was the practice of reading a writer straight through -…

— Kyle Minor

When I was a kid, I'd go to the African-American section in the bookstore, and I'd try and find African-American people I…

— Colson Whitehead

When Indian musicians play a raga it's very restrictive. But, in a way these restraints are essential to liberate yourself through them,…

— John McLaughlin

For my type of story and my kind of writing, I think 'Vanity Fair' is the right forum.

— Dominick Dunne

From the moment I first saw you, my writings has been you.

— Ryaj Ablando Catayas

“I don't like to write. But I love having written. ”

— Michael Kanin

writers just kept on staring at nothing until they wrote something. Might be two minutes or two weeks.

— Martha Grimes

“If it’s not truth, Don’t remember it, Don’t write it down, Don’t say it.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

We want to celebrate John Sullivan's writing, and hope we've done it justice.

— Paul Whitehouse

I am 54 and age is slowly writing itself on my face.

— Arthur Smith

We choose to be writers because we don't want to talk.

— Gloria Steinem

We wouldn't be artists, writers, painters, musicians, if we weren't sensitive.

— Wayne Coyne

“When you are writing a complicated story, you have got to have a map.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

— Isaac Asimov

I'm interested in characters. I love them, and I love to write them.

— Sebastian Lelio

I'm a writer and a photographer - I'm totally aware that doesn't always translate to TV.

— Ree Drummond

I'm not a polemicist; I had no business writing a polemic.

— Ariel Levy

It's hard for me to write about anything personal because I get way too personal.

— Angela Alioto

Humility is not a virtue in a writer, it is an absolute necessity.

— James Lee Burke